Hello everyone, it's been a looooooooong time since I've updated this story but you'll have to forgive me. After Christmas I had a lot going on, death in the family, friends causing me stress, and it seems like I've been trying to solve everyone's problems but my own. Luckily I've had a certain somebody around to comfort me. Those of you who've waited patiently, thank you so much. Last time Kumamon, Rexmon, and I got captured by Kaizokumon and got thrown towards an island. That's doesn't happy too often, does it?
Kumamon: Nice to see you back, and so happy. Was it your valentine that cheered you up? -nudge nudge-
-nervously- Maybe. So where's Rexmon?
Kumamon: Don't know. He should be around here.........somewhere. -wink wink-
Why in the world are you wink-AHH!!! -falls down as Rexmon jumps on my back- What in the world are you doing!?
Kumamon and Rexmon both: HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY!!!
That's right, it's my birthday today. I decided that I would wait til my 21st birthday to upload the 21st chapter since it was taking me so long to write.
Rexmon: Yup. So you should all review as a birthday present to him. By the way, Fourtress101 got the 25 review! Congrats for giving this milestone review.
Kumamon: Catching Rain, you missed it by a hair. Maybe you'll get review 50. But you two are definitely awesome regardless. We love the both of you and hope that everyone had a great valentine's day.
Rexmon: We know Stanley-mon did.
Oi! That's enough out of the two of you. And thank you to those that added me to your story alerts. That gives me encouragement. Anyway, onto the disclaimer.
Disclaimer: I don't own digimon, but you already knew that, didn't you?
Three loud, strangely high pitched cries filled the sky as we zoomed over the horizon, towards the far off island. As we flew through the air at speeds that would easily dwarf most highway speed limits the wind caught in our mouth, making all of our jaws push outward comically. It should have made the fact that we could even scream impossible, but that's logic for you.
"IF WE HIT THAT ISLAND GOING AT THIS SPEED WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!" I shouted at the top of my lungs.
Rexmon's screams suddenly got twice as loud. "I DON'T WANT TO DIE, STANLEY-MON!!! HELP!!!"
"WILL THE BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP!? WE NEED TO THINK OF A WAY OUT OF THIS!!!"
Kumamon's shout somehow shut the two of us up as he tried to come up with a plan. He hung his head to keep the wind out of his face as much as possible so he could think better. By chance he happened to see my hands clenched around the ropes in an act of desperation and an idea struck him.
"STANLEY!!! DO YOU THINK YOU CAN BURN THE ROPE OFF WITH YOUR HANDS!?
"MY POWERS STILL AREN'T WORKING!!! IF I COULD ABSORB SOME THEN I COULD GET THEM OFF!!! BUT I CAN'T MOVE MY ARM ENOUGH TO GIVE REXMON A GOOD SHOT AT IT!!!
Since Kaizokumon's flunkies had first tied our arms to our sides then tied us up together maneuverability was extremely limited for us. Rexmon just couldn't angle his head enough to hit me with a flame attack.
"STANLEY-MON!!! USE YOUR LEG!!!" screamed Rexmon as we got closer and closer to the island.
I forced my head to move down towards my legs. I hadn't thought of it before, but my legs had a much longer reach than my arms did and way more flexibility at the moment. It would be easy for Rexmon to hit. "THIS MAY COST ME A PANTS LEG, BUT HERE GOES!!!" As the G-forces continued to push against our bodies I pulled the leg closest to Rexmon up as far as I could. "REXMON, GO!!!"
The raptor digimon tilted his head and aimed as my leg as the force of the wind began to push it back down. "PYRO SHOT!!!" A large fireball shot out his mouth and hit the knee of my pants as I hissed a bit from the pain. I had only absorbed fire once and that was through my palms, so absorbing it from my leg was a bit different.
As the leg of my pants sizzled away the familiar feeling of a comfortable heat began to flow through my body. Relaxing slightly, I pulled my hands up to the ropes and grasped them tightly as I pulled some heat into my hands. Kumamon and Rexmon both waited with baited breath as the ropes began to sizzle and snap. "HERE WE GO!!!" With that the ropes snapped apart from the heat and I quickly grabbed onto the ropes holding the others' arms together and burned them off too.
"Ow! That burns you idiot!!!" cried Kumamon as his ropes came off. His fur was slightly singed.
"Yay! I can move my arms!" Rexmon, being a fire digimon, was not affected by the low level fire technique and immediately flung his arms out and began to flap them like the wings of a bird while we were still in midair.
"Be serious you goofy dino! We gotta figure out how to land without getting killed!" screamed Kumamon as we continued to fly. Rexmon immediately stopped flapping and began to look around.
"I don't think we're gonna make it to the island, Fuzzy-mon!"
"Huh?" both Kumamon and I went. The two of us looked around and saw that everything was passing by as fast as it was before. It appeared as though we had slowed down.
"He's right! As this speed we're gonna end up slamming into the water instead of the island!"
"Isn't that a good thing!?" both Rexmon and I asked.
"No! At this this height we're as good as dead if we hit the water! If a belly flop from a few feet hurts, think of what one from this altitude would do to you!"
Rexmon put his claw up to his mouth and said, "Rexmon go bye-bye?"
Kumamon and I just sweatdropped as nodded our heads. "Yes. Rexmon go bye-bye."
Rexmon immediately began to cry anime tears as we began our descent towards the ocean.
"Dammit! Can't we cushion the impact somehow!? We're gonna hit the surface any minute!"
Kumamon suddenly grabbed my shirt and shook me. "YOU'RE A GENIUS!!! We can our attacks on the water's surface at the last minute and it'll cushion our impact! Let's go!"
Rexmon stopped crying and looked at the water as his eyes turned feral and Kumamon reared back his fist. I, on the other hand, just faced the water and gulped. "I really miss Earth." I said to myself as I also reared back a first.
"HERE WE GO!!! 5!!! 4!!! 3!!! 2!!! 1!!!" he shouted just as we about to hit the water's surface.
"PYRO SHOT!!!"
"PHOENIX PUNCH!!!"
"BEAR FIST!!!"
The three attacks collided with the water, resulting in a large wave that picked the three of us up and threw us into three different spots in the ocean. Kumamon came up first, quickly followed by Rexmon.
"Hey, Kiwi-head! Where's the idiot!?"
Rexmon looked around worriedly as I was nowhere to be seen. "I don't see him, Fuzzymon! Where is he?"
Kumamon growled as he thought about the incident with Kuwagamon and the river. "I forgot he couldn't swim, so he's probably still in the water! Drowning!!!"
With wide eyes, Rexmon quickly took a breath and dove down into the water in an attempt to look for me as Kumamon quickly did likewise.
"Stanley-mon, where are you? Rexmon will be sad if he doesn't find you."
"You idiot! I swear if I find you alive I'm gonna pound you into the dirt THEN teach you how to swim!
As they continued to swim through the various underwater currents they began to run out of breath and had to return to the surface. Kumamon was the first to speak as they broke the surface.
"Crud, where is he!?" His expression turned to one of panic as he moved around in the water frantically.
Rexmon could only look at the panic stricken digimon with a frown on his face. "Fuzzymon, we'll find him. We can't give up."
"You." Kumamon suddenly turned and faced Rexmon. "It's your fault we're even in this mess in the first place!"
Rexmon went wide-eyed in surprise, but then put his head down in shame. "Fuzzymon."
Kumamon snorted and turned away from him. "We'll talk about this later. If it were the idiot, he make saving us his first priority and I refuse to let him be better than me." With that he again dove under the water.
With many new things on his mind, Rexmon dove back under the water determined to find me.
….
Meanwhile, under the water I was trying my best to hold my breath as I waited for my two digimon to come and rescue me. Somehow I had gotten separated from the two of them when we hit the water. I had tried to kick up to the surface, but didn't get very far so I opted to just wait in the water with my breath held.
"I swear if those two don't find me soon I'm going to run out of air. Then I'll come back from the grave and haunt them forever." I raised the heat around my body as I felt myself sink a bit deeper into the water. "Damn! This is the only reason I haven't sank all the way to the bottom. It sucks I didn't think of this until I had gotten this far down, otherwise I could've just floated to the surface. I swear if I get out of this I'm gonna learn to swim." I covered my mouth as I felt more air escape my lungs. "I'm gonna run out of air soon, so I'm gonna have to give them a signal to show them where I am." And with that I let out all of the heat that I could, making the water around me begin to bubble. "Hurry, you two.
….
Rexmon swam swiftly through the water, using his tail as a powerful rudder. "Stanley-mon, where are you? If I don't find you Fuzzymon will get mad and he'll beat me up. But more than that, I'll be sad too." All his life, Rexmon had been alone in the wilds outside of Pyro City, hardly ever coming into any real contact with digimon. As most digimon had grown up in villages and had worked in harmony with each other, Rexmon did everything himself. He mostly acted on instinct, become feral when he felt threatened. In his feral state he had much better reflexes than digimon that were civilized and complacent. But as a downside he wasn't very social and was hostile towards the digimon he did come into contact with.
For some reason though when he wasn't in his feral state he was innocent and somewhat goofy. It was this side of him that prompted him to come to Pyro City every now and then and tend to hurt digimon. He was still somewhat feral, but the innocent side of him had a bit more influence over him. At around the time that started he to hear a voice in his head and that voice would always say one word. "Stanley," it would always say and with that word came images of a boy. In the images he saw bits and pieces of the the boy's life. He felt attached to him and had the strange urge to meet him, as if it was his destiny.
As he traveled alone he began to look forward to the day when they would meet. He could hardly contain his excitement as he walked into the clinic that day only to see the boy he had dreamed about for so long. He wasn't expecting the other digimon that was with him, Kumamon, but for some reason Rexmon felt a strange link between himself and the other digimon. He was surprised when he found out the two were looking for him, but didn't really believe that he was the one they were looking for at first. Instinctively he knew that a strange mark on his arm would link the three of them together and the rest was history.
They hadn't known each other long, but he had become even more attached to them then he originally thought. Kumamon, or "Fuzzymon" as he called him, was brash and hot headed, but showed concern when he or Stanley was in danger. Stanley was curious about the digital world and showed much compassion. For some odd reason though it seemed like he had something to prove to himself, often resulting in him jumping head first into situations without thinking at times. The two of them were Rexmon's family, ones that he could trust no matter what.
"They wouldn't leave me to fall if they had known I was in trouble. But I let fishy-mon and skully-mon trick me into thinking that. This is all my fault. I have to find him no matter what!"
Rexmon spun his tail around even faster with a renewed effort and passed by an area in the water where there was a lot of heat and saw a mass of bubbles seemingly surrounding something.
"What is that?" He got closer to it and dispersed the bubbles with his claws. He wondered what could be generating that heat and then realized what was inside the bubbles. Frantically he pushed the bubbles aside until he revealed figure underneath.
"STANLEY!!!" he cried in his head as he accidentally opened his mouth from excitement and let out a bunch of air. He quickly closed his mouth and put his claws over it as he realized his mistake. With a giggle in his head he grabbed onto my nearly unconscious body and began to head up to the surface with all the speed he could manage.
….
Kumamon's head once again broke the surface of the water as he came up for another breath. "At this rate I'll be too late to save him! Where in the world that kiwi-head when you need him!?" he shouted as he looked around for the dinosaur digimon in question. Just as he was about to go down again something broke the surface of the water, splashing cold water on his already wet fur. He quickly wiped most of the water away from his eyes and stared at who had just come out of the water.
"Hey, fuzzymon! Lookie who I found!" He gave a huge, toothy grin as he raised my body up into the open air.
Kumamon gave an exasperated sigh then gave his own huge grin. "For this, I won't totally pound you into the dirt."
....
"Wake up, idiot." came a voice and then a sharp pain in my forehead.
I shot up abruptly then turned to my side to see Kumamon with a large grin on his face and his claw in a thumping position. "Did you just thump me?"
"Yup. But I think I'm entitled to a thump or two after what you just put us through. You're lucky Rexmon found you; otherwise, you wouldn't be alive right now. You might wanna thank him before we drill him for answers about what happened on the Whamon." He pointed over his shoulder to Rexmon, who was gathering berries in the bushes nearby.
"Rexmon?"
The dinosaur's head poked out of the bushes and smiled gleefully as the rest of his body slowly emerged. "Stanley-mon? You okay?"
I stood up slowly and looked down. "I'm fine, but where are my clothes?" Kumamon pointed to a nearby branch where my clothes were hanging and I walked up to them. "So how long was I out?"
"About a couple of hours I'd say. You were under the water for a long time so your clothes were extremely soaked. I had to take your clothes off and hang em on that branch. The the hot head dried them off with his flame. By the way, we're teaching you how to swim."
I chuckled as I quickly put my clothes back on and looked around. "I'm really glad there weren't any girls around to see me like that. But now we have more important things to worry about. How are we gonna get off of this island and get back to Kaizokumon's ship?"
"Don't know. Swimming would be useless since we flew a really long way and your not being able to swim would only slow us down. And since he's got the digivice there's no way for you to transform."
Rexmon bounded over to the two of us and gave his input on the situation. "Well even if we don't have the digi-thingy can't we just eat a digi-chip?"
I was about to say that that was a good idea, but Kumamon opened his mouth before I could. "We can't both eat the same digi-chip and the power wouldn't last long enough to get back to the ship. We'd end up stuck in the middle of the ocean, worse off then we are now. I guess we're out of options for right now."
"Effing perfect." I said with sarcasm. "So now what do we do?"
Rexmon sat down and stared at us. "Since we can't go anywhere we might as well eat." And with that he put down the berries in a pile and motioned for us to sit and eat.
Kumamon and I both shrugged and sat down as Rexmon began to stuff his face. He had gathered A LOT of berries.
"While we eat, I think kiwi-head should tell just exactly what happened on the ship and how those pirate got their hands on that cannon," said Kumamon as he grabbed a hand full of berries.
I nodded as I reached out and got my own pile of berries. I noticed Rexmon hung his head when Kumamon called him out, but I put a reassuring hand on his shoulder and gave him a confident smile when he looked up. "It's okay boy. I personally won't be angry about anything since I've made plenty of mistakes in my life. Mr. Perfect, on the other hand, my have a hissy fit." At 'Mr. Perfect' Kumamon scowled, but turned his head to hide a smile that he couldn't quite hold back.
Rexmon gulped down a big mouthful of berries and began to tell his tale. "Well I climbed the ladder to jump off the REALLY high board," he stretched his arms upward to emphasize how high the diving board was, "and I didn't see you guys anywhere. I fell off the back of the board and almost went bye-bye until scaly-mon and boney-mon saved me right before I went 'splat'."
My eyes went wide as I realized how close Rexmon came to being seriously injured while I was tending to Kumamon's sinkness.
"The two of them convinced me that they were my friends and that you two had just left me for no reason. I was really sad until they asked me to play pirates with them."
"Oh the irony." quipped Kumamon
"Shut it, Kumamon. Continue, Rexmon."
"Well they said we'd be looking for treasure and we traveled down to where that thingy was. We passed a couple of digimon on the way there and I thought it was part of the game."
"Well that explains what happened to the guards we found." thought both Kumamon and I at the same time.
"And then I DANCED in a room with a lot of red lights. Scaly-mon and Boney-mon told me not to touch them and I didn't. Then we got into the room. But," he suddenly hugged himself and started to shiver. "That thing, it's scary. It gave me a bad feeling."
"What?" I asked.
Kumamon, on the other hand, didn't seem confused at all. "So you can sense the cannon's evil aura too. You're a 'chosen' digimon and we're in tuned to things like that."
Scratching my head I turned to Kumamon. "Kumamon, what exactly is the Nemesis Cannon? You make it sound like it's a living thing. Like a digimon."
"That's because it is a digimon. Or was made from the remains of one." I looked to Kumamon with wide eyes and Rexmon didn't look any less surprised than I was.
"Made from the remains of a digimon? What are you talking about?"
"A long time ago, during the last digital war, Quetzalmon ruled the lands with a malicious will. He was pure evil. But as evil as he was, there was one general of his that may have been even more sinister than he was. This digimon lived to kill other digimon and literally fed on their suffering. He would actually consume the digimon he terrorized after they were scared nearly to death. Even Quetzalmon was cautious of him, according to mother. When Quetzalmon felt like he had his back against the wall, he sent this digimon to the front line to fight my mother and the other digidestined. This guy was almost as difficult to beat as ole Quet himself. Eventually they defeated this guy, but Quetzalmon thought that since his remains could be turned into a weapon and that's exactly what he did. What he didn't realize was that his consciousness was still inside his remains and now possesses the cannon.
I was eating my berries like popcorn as he told the story, but almost choked on them during that last part. "That digimon's spirit is still in the cannon!?"
"Yeah. That Malo-Myotismon was one sick digimon."
"Malo....." started Rexmon.
"Myotismon," I finished.
....
Meanwhile, Kaizokumon sat in the cockpit of the Nemesis Cannon as he threw the digivice up and down in his hand. "Ah, dis be quite da prize I've gotten me hands on. And those digidestined be stuck on dat island until the sovereigns find em. But even bigger than that is dis puppy right here." He ran his palm over the controls of the Cannon.
"Do you want power?"
"What the?" Kaizokumon looked around at the sound of the sudden voice, but didn't see anyone. "Hmmm. Maybe I'm hearin things."
"You are not hearing things, my friend."
This time, Kaizokumon jumped up in the cockpit and started to look around frantically. Normally he wouldn't be afraid of anything, for everyone he met eventually feared him. But for some unexplained reason a intense fear began to grip him. He didn't see anyone around him and suddenly thought he was going crazy. "What in the world is going on? Could it be?" He looked down at the cannon and remembered how easily he seemed to pilot it. "The Nemesis Cannon!?"
"I'll give you power. Bwahahahaha!"
"NOOOOOOO!!!" came Kaizokumon's scream as a dark aura came up from the cannon and consumed him.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter even though it was probably a bit rushed. Kumamon and Rexmon are currently planning my party so they won't be here to give and comments. Again, hope everybody had a good valentine's day and I'll see you next time. Be sure to review and wish me a happy birthday.